Some people are destined to end up with their own TV show. You can just imagine it: Liverpool’s quartet of DJs, the self-confessed ‘four-man funk machine/idiosyncopated ironists and revivalists’, spinning flash fresh beats for the assembled audience. They’ve even got the name sorted: CantmixWontmixShdntmixDontmix. That name is as far from the truth as you can imagine – these guys know exactly what they’re doing.

Keeping up with CmWmSmDm, who formed in 2006, is worth the effort and they display some quite unique influences, too. For example: ‘Jimmy Saville,’ nods Shdntmix. ‘Without his help, there would be four of us around one turntable.However, the mixing would be seamless – after a 30-second gap.’ Which may be accurate enough but, a little more sensibly, Wntmix shouts out to some more contemporary chaps.

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‘Furness & Venom have been championing underground dance music in Liverpool for years,’ he muses. ‘And it was good to see Furness rewarded for his efforts with a Chibuku residency. Elsewhere, Buddha has helped put Django’s Riff on the map as a haven of quality music and for initiating The Sludge-a-thon, which has been instrumental in bringing the small club scene closer together.’

Musically, the influences range from James Brown, House Of Pain and The Clash to Erol Alkan, Carl Dunne and their good mates at Chibuku. Liverpool has been good to the quartet, and they’re happy to rate the city as being on the up, particularly for the smaller promoters. ‘It’s great at the moment,’ confirms Shdtmix. ‘Suddenly small nights are getting big names in and starting to push themselves. The support clubs have given to each other with a collective aim to make Liverpool more than the big clubs is great and, likewise, the bigger clubs putting on local talent to broaden the pool of talent. Pun intended.’

The guys are heavily involved with running parties and a plethora of nights, including their bi-monthly residency, The Mix Delusion at the Caledonia on Catherine Street. It’s been a grand year so far, too. The guys reached the final of the recent Corona DJ Competition. To what do they attribute their success?

‘We’re just about playing good music without being complicated,’ they say, refreshingly honest to the end. ‘It’s boss that people enjoy what we play and book us.’ Next stop, the TV studio?